The answer to the question is: "Destiny? What's *destiny* got to do with it?"
-- Sandwichman ^^^^ Perhaps this is the "optimism of the will" (coupled with "pessimism of the intellect" in the old saying) component of Marx's propaganda. "Humanity is destined to evolve into communism. It's communism or death, communism or barbarism. Yes we can ! " Marx is expressing the audacity of hope , here. That's my take on this and things like the expression in _The Manifesto_ concerning the "inevitability" of socialism. Marx and Engels hold that there is a major subjective or "idealistic" ( in the non-philosophical sense) to the movement. People have to have a "cando" attitude, or they won't even make the effort to win socialism. So, terms like "destiny" are a sort of 19th Century "rah-rah, go socialism" expression. This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
